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Vulnerability Note VU#788416Computer Associates AntiVirus InoTask buffer overflow vulnerabilityOverviewComputer Associates AntiVirus for the Enterprise and Threat Manager products contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be exploited by local users to execute code with elevated privileges.I. DescriptionComputer Associates eTrust Antivirus v8 includes a component called InoTask. InoTask is used to schedule and lauch tasks and programs.The InoTask process contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. By sending malformed data to the InoTask process, a user may be able to execute code with elevated privileges. Note that publicly available exploit code exists for this vulnerability.
Computer Associates has released an update to address this vulnerability. This update is available as part of the automatic content update. See Computer Associates' secnotice050807 for more details.
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Thanks to iDefense for information that was used in this report. iDefense credits binagres for discovering this vulnerability. This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.
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